Ridiculously Garrett

I'll be just fine to work on my track this week. Good luck to everyone in Round 3!

This is quite the blast from the past! I grew up. with this game almost exclusively on gameboy. I love the soundscape, though, how much of this is live? During the main melody, it feels almost too quantized and as if there isn't really any variation of velocities. That's really my biggest complaint here. But, quite a solid mix, I like hearing this tune a decade later than when I was playing it .

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You've got a knack for making really beautiful orchestral pieces! I love how romantic sounding this one is.

I might have fractured my rotator cuff this weekend, I could be out of commission for the competition, but I'll see if I need surgery, and I suppose I'll be ambidextrous this week in doing as much as I can! We'll have to see when voting closes as well.

I loved every single entry. I really enjoyed listening to pixeltea's more jazzy approach to the theme and I gotta say, as a piano player, that interpretation of the Crash Man bits were really slick. Awesome job, I especially loved the super crazy bass on tom runs during the Crash parts as well. And that modulating upwards bit at the end had a cool effect. Was a really cool listen! Mak Eightman's metal version took the cake for me, lots of awesome groove in there. Those weird modulating synth sounds in the beginning were a treat to add to the grunginess of this one. I would love to have voted for AxLRs submission, but due to the voting guidelines, I had to vote the other way. Arceace's track was much more uniform in arrangement imo (though if I had to choose a favorite it would probably be Digital Redemption). SuperiorX's submission was nice and funky, with some super weird chords. It reminds me of another song, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Chiptuney and funky, this one sounded nice and thick.

Submitted my track! I got a lot of cool ideas out during this. Good luck to everybody who participated in Round 1 of GRMRB!

This is gonna be one challenging, fun, productive compo. Good luck to everybody participating!

If there were anything more I'd want from this, it might some form of auxiliary percussion. But I like it nonetheless.

Yup! https://rainwave.cc/ocremix/

I like the idea of this. I might try this myself with shorter scenes from video games. Seems like a good exercise, if not, project.

Moving this to "Ready for Review" for an eval

I am thouroughly enjoying this.

Count me in, my order of preference is: 1. Crash Man 2. Flash Man 3. Heat Man

I'm in again Coop. Gotta get some mo' experience under ma belt.

Bumping this because I have updated the link a bit.

I wish I knew anything about arranging for big band. You've clearly got the chops for it! I love the liberty here.

Thanks for your criticism! With @Bowlerhat's live flute, there will be enough variety to make it sound more interesting and less, "Okay, I dig this groove, but what's hot here?" Glad you enjoy it!

I like the idea, not sure that this would fly with OCR though??? I couldn't tell ya.

Since we're exploring music education, I want to say nowadays, music education on the university level outside of schools like Berklee, Julliard, NEC, what have you... in my experience, it's a complete joke. I'm going to Endicott College, and it's a great school. I went in as Computer Science major, realized it wasn't for me, and I switched to Liberal Studies with a concentration in Music. Now I did this because what I really want to study is music (we don't have enough money to go to music school, ok how can I make this work). Well... it's not working. It's a complete joke. I have private instruction... he doesn't have me do anything. He just kinda stands there. In jazz band (frustrating for me because this is something I really want to look forward to), our instructor hardly makes them work hard not only to play right, but to play tight. Every section is very weak. I had some music classes with the same professor who does my private instruction, hey guess what, we didn't do anything in those classes and I got an A just because. At the end of the day, I'm switching majors. And this is a college; we hosted an intercollegiate jazz fest with other schools in the area, Ipswich High and Beverly High played, then us and Gordon College followed by Boston University. It goes without saying we were terrible compared to the other universities, but even the high schools were miles better than us. Maybe I'm just a kid who's wishing he was going to music school, but this level of education is less than mediocre.

Is it possible for me to agree on both sides? I'd like to do that.

I have to say, for me, this is probably the saddest. While I have contended that pop does not equal less musicianship, I will agree I'm not a fan of the kind of music that plays on today's radio stations. I've tried playing music that I enjoy in the car with my peers, which is usually jazz or R&B, and they usually ask "What the fuck is this?" Then they put on Post Malone or Drake. I've asked them too why they don't like my music taste, and their response was, "Because we can't get lit to it." I'm sure people were getting lit to Bill Evans in 1963.

I can't speak for anyone who's gonna judge, but I love seeing mixes blown outta the water in a whole new direction. I like this a lot!

I'll take Animal Crossing with K.K. Crusin'!

Update: I'm gonna get to editing this again this week! I've done a little bit with this in the past month.